However, the numbers still looks the same to me :) But let's leave userpics alone, a more important thing came to my mind. While sorting this issue out, I noticed considerable network latency when connecting to DW servers, which is slightly less than 0,2 sec. And it reminded me one big deal about Nginx vs. Apache. Apache's processes are blamed for staying for too long with all it's memory consumed while sending HTTP response to client. So, Nginx's often role is being a proxy between clients and Apache, letting Apache process to output response body in a blazing speed and waste no time serving slow clients. Meanwhile Nginx buffers the response and feed it to client, consuming very little RAM and CPU, as it's the only thing Nginx was designed for. This was exactly my own case, when I run a web-server on a very old PC, like Celeron 400Mhz. Apache's been choking at traffic peaks and friend of mine suggested to put Nginx in front of it. And it resolved all the problems, worked like a charm until hardware completely passed away :)
I think this slow clients issue is one of the reasons of memory shortage Denise's been talking about. And with all we Russians who come to DW after recent LJ slowdown, with such a big latency it can be an issue. I know that Nginx is not the only solution, but one I am [relatively] familiar with.
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But let's leave userpics alone, a more important thing came to my mind.
While sorting this issue out, I noticed considerable network latency when connecting to DW servers, which is slightly less than 0,2 sec.
And it reminded me one big deal about Nginx vs. Apache.
Apache's processes are blamed for staying for too long with all it's memory consumed while sending HTTP response to client.
So, Nginx's often role is being a proxy between clients and Apache, letting Apache process to output response body in a blazing speed and waste no time serving slow clients. Meanwhile Nginx buffers the response and feed it to client, consuming very little RAM and CPU, as it's the only thing Nginx was designed for.
This was exactly my own case, when I run a web-server on a very old PC, like Celeron 400Mhz. Apache's been choking at traffic peaks and friend of mine suggested to put Nginx in front of it. And it resolved all the problems, worked like a charm until hardware completely passed away :)
I think this slow clients issue is one of the reasons of memory shortage Denise's been talking about.
And with all we Russians who come to DW after recent LJ slowdown, with such a big latency it can be an issue.
I know that Nginx is not the only solution, but one I am [relatively] familiar with.
And thanks for your gift :)